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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

· Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

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Times Brought

161

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Final zone distribution

48 instances

27.1%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 71 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 5 decks
3 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
6 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy 1 decks
7 Hama, the Bloodbender 1 decks
8 Marina Vendrell 1 decks
9 Noctis, Prince of Lucis 1 decks
10 Queza, Augur of Agonies 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

161 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

161

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=21) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=93).

Observed gap +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

17%

48%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 12

On curve 17% (4 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.